Essay 2-01a: Favorite Place “My Burrow”

I have my burrow, and I like it very much. It is my house, of course. Now, I will introduce my house. My house is two-storied high and a detached house. There are a living room, a dining room, a kitchen, a bath room and the other three rooms on the first floor. And, there are my room and the other three rooms on the second floor. My house has a roof of black tile and white walls. The exterior is a Japanese style house. There are four peoples in my family. I have father, mother and an old sister. My sister works in Tokyo, so this house is used by three people. Now, I’ll introduce the points of my house.


First, there are many books in my house. All my family likes reading books. My father likes especially reading. But sadly, we don’t have a library, so books put everywhere. I think the reason why we have so many books is that we like different books each other. My father likes books about business, IT and history. My mother likes books about health and mystery. My sister likes books about fantasy and comics. And I like books about SF, romance and literature. In the first floor, there are three bookshelves. And in the second floor, there are five bookshelves. The bookshelves aren’t bookshelves to be accurate. We use an old cupboard and an old desk for children as bookshelves. I like the lukewarm way of my family.


Second, I like the lavatory of my house. The lavatory has some gadgets. It is the door that it opens automatically, because the door is put in a big spring. After someone open the door with hand, it closes by the power of the spring. This was put by my father, because he thought that closing the door is a tiresome work. Moreover turn on and off the light automatically too. The light can recognize moving things. It was put by my father for the prevention of forgetting to turn off the light. The lavatory is like a contraption room.


Third, the garden is a main feature. The garden is like a letter of “L”. My parents like gardening. They plant many flowers and vegetables without discrimination. In the garden, a pomegranate tree, a kumquat tree, many flowers in planters and plant pots, kitchen garden are planted. My garden is always crawling with their. Moreover, we hang out the washing at fine days, so the garden has little space. I think the more simply garden is good, but my garden which has many greens is nice too.


Finally, I will introduce my room. My room is on the second floor. It is a six-tatami room. There are all essential things in my room. They are my laptop computer and my bed. When I have free time, I lie down on the bed and do net surfing. It is a blissful moment.
When I study occasionally, I carry a desk and a chair from the corner of my room. This desk is a desk of my high school. I get it when I was a high school student. When I sit on it, I can concentrate on study.


I stated the main features of my house. I can say generally that my house is not stylish. The bookshelves, the springs of the lavatory, the chaos of my garden are far apart from stylish. But I like them very much. I wanted to live in stylish and cool house. But now, I am satisfied with this living space. If it is not smart, it has all necessary things. And before everything, living with parents always relieves me. This place is just “My Burrow”.

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Essay 1-02a [COMME des GARCONS]

I think that fashion is a view of the world. It is not looks, but a way of life. One day, I met a fashion brand that pursues it. The brand is “COMME des GARCONS”. I will introduce my favorite brand “CDG”.

CDG was founded by Rei Kawakubo, Japanese designer in 1969. CDG began to attract international attentions since the early 1980s. She has expressed a collection that black stand out overwhelmingly at the show in Paris. It is called Impact of Black, and the pros and cons were equally divided. At that time, black was the color of ceremonial occasions. People did not usually wear black clothes, but black clothes became international boom after that collection. Kawakubo still goes on challenging about “What is black?”

CDG publishes great direct mails and flyers. Kawakubo herself takes part in the production, and she sticks the texture of the paper, the size and the shape completely. I am interested in season’s visuals. They is not printed CDG’ clothes, but works of artists and messages etc. are printed. I think that they show a view of world in exchange for do not advertize clothes.

In addition, the expressible place of CDG is stores. CDG has more than 200 stores of direct management. Apparel shops generally uniform the design of shop, but CDG is exception. It consider the requirement of countries, districts and environments. Kawakubo herself usually plot the concept, on the other hand she request of artists and architect too.

As has been mentioned, CDG has a unique view of the world. I think that CDG has something. It is not fashion. Those who put on CDG’s clothes are demanded the attitude how to face up to the intense message of executors. All the time, the clothes proclaim new sense of value. I think CDG don’t connote fashion but fantasy.


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Reference URL

Japanese street. . Retrieved , from
http://www.japanesestreets.com/fashion-brands/391/comme-des-garcons.